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Activate Multitouch Gestures In Firefox 3.5

12:40AM July 2, 2009 | Mark Wilson

During the Firefox 3.5 beta, a few people stumbled upon a neat, unadvertised feature. By twisting their fingers on a Macbook’s multitouch pad, they were able to roll through their loaded tabs. But Firefox 3.5 (official) deactivated the trick. More »


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Chrome: Google’s Open Source Browser

5:45AM September 2, 2008 | Brian Lam

Kara at All Things D and Phil at Google Blogoscoped predict a Google Browser soon, maybe as soon as tomorrow, that is open sourced, with an intelligent “omni” search/address bar, a multithreaded javascript engine called v8, and tabs on the top of windows. Part of their source material includes a comic which explains its design. [All Things D and Google Blogoscoped] galleryPost('googlebrowser', 3, '');

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ICANN Opens Door For Crazy Domain Names Like Crap.Crap

7:40AM June 28, 2008 | Jason Chen

ICANN has just made a decision that goes beyond allowing .xxx to be a top level domain; they’re allowing all words to be top level domains. That means you’re going to see domains like fuck.shit, shit.shit, shit.fuck, whatisthisshit.fuck, and so forth. What’s not allowed is domains that conflict with trademarks (.pepsi was the example), too similar to current top level domains, or names associated with countries or governments (juicy.turkey). Companies will also register their products and services, leading to really annoying domains like pleaseplayyour.ps3pleaseplease, or dontyouwantanother.ipod. Nice one, ICANN. Nice one. [USA Today]

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